Felicia Spann

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Buying gifts for the pastry fanatic you know isn't particularly hard: As with any purchase for a cook of any kind, you'll want to consider utility and necessity first, after which you can turn to the demands of whimsy and fun. If you know someone who's just starting out on their baking adventures, …

The beauty of learning how to cook Italian food the right way is that you don't have to go to a restaurant every time the craving strikes. From making the perfect pasta to having the essential pantry staples on hand, there are a few secrets Italian cooks always have up their sleeves that come in …

Italian pastry chef Matteo Stucchi is proof that you should play with your food. Based in Monza, Italy, the 23-year-old creates delectable desserts and sugary-sweet treats with a twist—he adds comical, tiny toys to transform his homemade baked goods into inventive and imaginative miniature …

Food Network chef Tyler Florence shared his mashed potatoes recipe with us, and I immediately had to try it. Traditionally, potatoes are cooked in water before being mashed together with butter and cream (or milk). However, Tyler suggests cooking the potatoes in the cream itself, so no potato-y …

We scoured the web looking for enticing and novel uses of drugstore candy bars, perfect for using up your leftover Halloween candy stash. Be warned: these treats aren't messing around. Side effects of flipping through this roundup may include hunger pangs, nostalgia, and an overwhelming impulse to …

<i>This article is part of a series aimed at helping you navigate life’s opportunities and challenges. What else should we write about? Contact us:</i> <i>smarterliving@nytimes.com</i><i>.</i><p>The on-ramp for cooking is finding the recipes that make you want to cook, whether you get them from NYT Cooking or BuzzFeed or …

"Don't you ever get bored of eating tacos? You eat them every day." If this is something you have heard and promptly answered with a big resounding no, then this "challenge" is just for you. Straight ahead you'll find a month-worth of taco recipes — chicken, steak, pork, fish, and vegetarian — that …

Cast iron skillet recipes have come a *long* way since they were a staple on your grandparents’ dinner table. Now (thanks to Pinterest), you can make everything from skillet dip recipes to full one-pot skillet meals and beyond. What’s beyond that, you ask? Two words: skillet cookies. That’s right — …

<b>The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem</b><p><i>By Marcus Samuelsson</i><p><i>Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin</i><p><i>Harcourt, 384 pages, $52.95, publishes on Oct. 18</i><p>From its opening dedication "to the people of Harlem," it's clear that Marcus Samuelsson's <i>The Red Rooster Cookbook</i> is much more than a …

We went to our local New York City grocery store, Best Market, and sought out the boxed cake section.<p>Each brand had a "Devil's Food" chocolate cake mix, except Duncan Hines. Theirs was "Swiss Chocolate." The image on the box looked similar enough to the other three that we decided to buy it …